Questover Farms

05/25/2026

Questover Farm is very excited to be adding “Questover Inconcievable” AKA Maya to our team! We have such high hopes for this little girl…we love an underdog story and can’t wait to see what Maya does! Stay tuned for some more Maya related content and give her a big warm welcome!

-a huge thank you to and .andie as well as Jeff and the rest of the Carolina Morning Stables crew for taking such good care of Maya for me for the last month! There are very few folks I would trust with my horses a state away but I grateful to be able to trust in you all!

05/19/2026

A fantastic show of firsts this weekend!
👑 Pheonix Mravlja and Crown Full of Rubies winning their first walk class together and Ruby’s first show ever!
Trainer Tylar Zingerella then rode Ruby in the hopeful hunters flat, pulling a fourth and gaining more experience!
🌼 Tylar then rode Princess Buttercup in her first 2’9 jumper class with two thirds and clear, clean rounds!
🐮 last but not least, Tylar rode Custom Colors to third and second in the hopeful hunters jump classes!
We are so excited for the fall season and can’t wait to get out there again!

05/13/2026

✨Today VS Three weeks ago✨
Progress isn’t always pretty! But with consistency and the right program (and maybe a perfect little red mare😉) we can bring out the best in our horses! So excited to watch this little mare develop into all she can be!

02/19/2026

Hey everyone, let’s chat!
I’ve been thinking about it lately and the older I get, the more I believe this sport should make you braver, not smaller.
Riding is hard enough. It asks you to fall off and get back on. To miss and try again. To sit with nerves and still swing your leg over anyway.
A trainer’s job isn’t to scare you into riding better.

✨It’s to help you believe you can.✨

Confidence doesn’t grow in an atmosphere of fear. It grows where there is accountability and encouragement. Where mistakes are part of the lesson, not a reason for humiliation. Where safety is never optional. Where respect goes both ways.
When riders feel safe, they become stronger.
They sit up taller.
They trust their horses.
They trust themselves.
And when a whole barn chooses to lift each other up, that is when the magic happens.
✨At Questover, we believe you can be competitive and kind. Professional and positive. Structured and supportive.
Turns out, building good humans and good horsemen usually go hand in hand. 🤍

01/11/2026

Butter showing off her skills in a jump course the other day! 💪💪One of my favorite parts of my job is seeing the pieces we work on come together! I don’t jump my horses to height very often but she wowed me the other day!

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12/25/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays, from our little family to yours!

11/12/2025

10/04/2025

Friday musings,
I was talking with a client about their horse that had a spooking/bolting issue.
During a ride they were watching the horse did a hard spook/bolt at one end of the arena while we were cantering. I got control of the situation by bending the horse to a stop then promptly started cantering on the opposite end of the arena after a few laps the horse blew out and started calming down. Once that happened I started cantering closer and closer to the “spooky” area but I’d only canter closer about 15’ or so then canter back up to the “good” side then back down 15’ more than before into the “spooky” area. Fore long the horse was just cantering around like nothing happened.
The owner asked some great genuine questions.
Why didn’t I make the horse immediately go the spooky end after I got the bolt under control?
Horse gain confidence through approach and retreat. So by just picking the canter back up where we left off and going to the “safe” spot we were still working on cantering confidence and by gradually increasing my cantering to the scary area then back up to the safe area we were using approach and retreat, to gain confidence. Yes, without a doubt I could’ve laid into the horse and made them go forward immediately into the scary area. But it wouldn’t have created confidence. Just blind, tense, anxious obedience that would last only for so long before that coke bottle really blew up.

See if we could gauge the anxiety or fear a horse has on a scale of 1-10 then in my opinion and experience when that horse is over 4 or 5 on that scale you can’t train them, only make them. I know this from previous employments in extreme situations. You may do what’s being yelled at you but you sure ain’t sure about it. You’re just doing it. That’s what makes approach and retreat so important it actually builds lasting results.

The other question was once I had that horse bent down and the hindquarters were tracking under and then stopped why didn’t I let go of the rein?
If I bend a horse down to stop and they are pulling on that direct rein I personally do not let go of rein. Their feet may be stopped but their mind is still running away, hence the pulling on my rein. So I wait, however long, for the feet to be still and the mind, I wait until they quit pulling on the reins and actually put slack in the rein before I give the rein. If they bolt, even at a walk,
I start the whole process over again.
Have a good weekend!!

10/03/2025

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